Eomellivora piveteau - Prehistoric giant Honey badger

[Spalea]

(10-30-2018, 09:56 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(10-30-2018, 08:53 PM)Spalea Wrote: This beast, giant mustelid, would have been a nightmare for any opponent...

Something like grumpy hyena maybe :) But I doubt, that so suicidal, that it would have fought with bigger predators at the time too much. Big predators seldom see nightmares, but often rivals from whom usurp carcass or kill if not giving in voluntarily. It would be fun to know if this ancestor was with same attitude as current honey badger, but some things remain as mysteries...

Yes, you're right. I told that by transposing the actual wolverine's behaviour to this giant ancestor, perhaps a little bit too easy ! Of course we don't know, in first approximation knowing that the mustelid are very tough predators regardless of their size, I judged a little bit too quickly it could be the same for the pleistocene mustelids.

But which predator would like to fight against a mustelid having the actual jaguar's size ? The opposition would be anyway very hard, even if this giant mustelid was very careful. Reply